[Cardiac perforation after vertebroplasty].

Anaesthesist

Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang- Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M., Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt a.M.

Published: February 2008

For more than 20 years percutaneous vertebroplasty has been used in the minimally invasive treatment of vertebral fractures. We report on a patient with embolisation of bone cement into the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle, which was perforated. The final diagnosis was delayed due to a combination of complications, previous disorders as well as a second embolisation.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00101-007-1276-8DOI Listing

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